Testing Esp32-S2 Minis

ESP32 WLED project #

I wanted a to try some new hardware for running WLED projects (mostly for making signs and other CNC projects). I asked around on social media and had a couple of reccomendations. I received several recomendations:

• ESP32-S2
• ESP-WROOM-32 Development Board Programmer
  • ESP32 Modules

I took the dive, bought both of those solutions, currently set the programmer on the back burner, but will have more updates on that one later.

The ESP32-S2 option #

Spent some time today looking into flashing these things with WLED, My first search led me to this post on reddit:

Any possibility to install WLED on ESP32-S2 Mini board?

So it led me down a sucessful path with the following steps. (There might be better ways, this was just the first thing I’ve tried)

• Installed the latest Tasmoto firmware Here tasmoto
  • Plugged in the board into my computer using USBC
    • Had to hit the Reset and ‘0’ buttons a few times to get my Windows 10 box to recognize it.
    • Hold down 0 button. Press reset button and release, release 0 button
• Set the new tasmodo device to use local network
  • Used my Android phone to connect to the tasmodo WAP that showed up
  • Set the network setting to use my local WAP
• Update firmware
  • Browsed to the device on my local network
  • Selected “Update Firmware”
  • Used the URL for the latest C2 [latest firmware] (https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/releases/download/v0.14.4/WLED_0.14.4_ESP32-S2.bin)
• Setup WLED
  • Browsed to the WLED page using the IP address
  • Entered the settings to connect to my local network
  • some test chang:e